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Northwest Earth Institute
EcoChallenge
October 14 - October 28, 2016
Emily Russell's avatar

Emily Russell

Taylor University

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 91 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    5.0
    plastic bottles
    not sent to the landfill

Emily's actions

Nature

Tend a Garden

I will tend to a garden each day, or work on starting one.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Water

Use Reusable Bottles

I will use a reusable bottle and stop purchasing bottled water, saving 1 disposable plastic bottle(s) a day.

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Transportation

Conduct Virtual Meetings

I will not travel for meetings and will instead conduct them virtually.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Plant an Herb Garden

I will plant an herb garden in my home, workplace, or dorm room.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

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    Emily Russell 10/28/2016 12:58 PM
    Day five. I wish this thing ran longer. I feel like I've barely started, haha. Picked up little plastic pots and some soil mix at the store yesterday. I'm picking up those seeds and planting my garden today. Here's hoping an Indiana winter won't kill it off...
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    Emily Russell 10/27/2016 10:08 AM
    Day four. Forgot to log in yesterday, so oops. A friend from school told me she could get me some seeds to start an herb garden, so not as much progress as I'd planned to have by now, but it's a first step. Planning to do some research today and hopefully head to the store to get what I need to start planting tomorrow.
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    Emily Russell 10/25/2016 8:55 PM
    Day two. Used my Bobble bottle again. Missed lab, so I'll be calculating my carbon and slavery footprints via worksheet on my own. Still need to research herb gardening...
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    Emily Russell 10/24/2016 10:22 AM
    Day one. I used my Bobble water bottle instead of the plastic bottles Ma bought. I need to research indoor herb gardening for my dorm room so I can get started on that this week. Unrelated to my listed challenges, I learned about carbon offsets today and calculated the carbon footprint of my car and air travel. Apparently it's about $60 worth of offsets per year.
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